re: #359 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Every incubator (i.e., animal) presents another opportunity for the virus to mutate to something that humans can much more easily catch.

Still remember Preston’s 1995 The Hot Zone, a true story about a highly virulent airborne Ebola that was 100% lethal among monkeys in Reston, but the human immune system treated it like a mild cold. Humans were infected but had no problems. So — it can go either way. And we won’t know until it happens which way it will change. From the disease’s view of survival (not that diseases have views), something that is mild but easily spread is a more effective path than something highly lethal.